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In this video from the 2014 HPCAC StanfordHPC & Exascale Conference, Steve Fields from IBM presents an OpenPOWER Foundation Overview.
"The founding members of the OpenPOWER Consortium represent the next generation in data-center innovation," said Steve Mills, senior vice president, and group executive, IBM Software & Systems. "Combining our talents and assets around the POWER architecture can greatly increase the rate of innovation throughout the industry. Developers now have access to an expanded and open set of server technologies for the first time. This type of 'collaborative development' model will change the way data center hardware is designed and deployed."
Learn more: http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2014/stanford-workshop/agenda.php
and
http://www.open-power.org

In this video from the NVIDIA GPUTechnologyConference, Gabriel Hautreux from GENCI presents: Using OpenMP and OpenACC standards for GPU on OpenPOWER: motivations and results.
"In order to prepare the scientific communities, GENCI and its partners have set up a technology watch group and lead collaborations with vendors, relying on HPC experts and early adopted HPC solutions. The two main objectives are providing guidance and prepare the scientific communities to challenges of exascale architectures. The talk will present the OpenPOWER platform bought by GENCI and provided to the scientific community. Then, it will present the first results obtained on the platform for a set of about 15 applications using all the solutions provided to the users (CUDA,OpenACC,OpenMP,...). Finally, a presentation about one specific application will be made regarding its porting effort and techniques used for GPUs with both OpenACC and OpenMP."

published:27 May 2018

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JeremyKerrhttp://lca2015.linux.org.au/schedule/30305/view_talk
POWER 8 is the first generation of IBM Power Systems to run on a full stack
of open-source software. Firmware, hypervisor, operating system and
hardware-management tools are all available for audit, review and
modification.
Collectively, this software is part of the OpenPOWER project. Some of the
components (like the Linux kernel) will be familiar, but others have been
developed specifically for Power systems.
This talk gives an introduction to OpenPOWER hardware and software, and covers
the technical aspects of the stack - the components involved, what they do, and
how they interact. We'll cover how you can modify, build and run your own
firmware on an OpenPOWER system.

OpenPOWER Foundation

The OpenPOWER Foundation is a collaboration around Power Architecture products initiated by IBM and announced as the "OpenPOWER Consortium" on August 6, 2013. IBM is opening up technology surrounding their Power Architecture offerings, like processor specifications, firmware and software and is offering this on a liberal license and they will be using a collaborative development model with their partners.

The goal stated is to enable the server vendor ecosystem to build their own customized server, networking and storage hardware for future data centers and cloud computing.

Power.org is still the governing body around the Power Architectureinstruction set but specific implementations are now free to use under a liberal license granted by IBM. Processors based on IBM's IP can now be fabricated on any foundry and mixed with other hardware products of the integrator's choice.

Openness

IBM is using the word open to describe this project in three ways.

They are licensing the microprocessor technology openly to its partners. They are sharing the blueprints to their hardware and software to their partners, so they can hire IBM or other companies to manufacture processors or other related chips.

Definition

The term "summit" is generally only used for a mountain peak with some significant amount of topographic prominence (height above the lowest point en route to the nearest higher peak) or topographic isolation (distance from the nearest point of higher elevation); for example, a boulder next to the main summit of a mountain is not considered a summit. Summits near a higher peak, with some prominence or isolation, but not reaching a certain cutoff value for these quantities, are often considered subsummits (or subpeaks) of the higher peak, and are considered as part of the same mountain. The UIAA definition is that a summit is independent if it has a prominence of 30 metres (98ft) or more; it is a mountain if it has a prominence of at least 300 metres (980ft). This can be summarised as follows:

Lakewood Church Central Campus

The Lakewood Church Central Campus (originally The Summit and formerly Compaq Center) is a house of worship in Houston, Texas. It is located about five miles southwest of Downtown Houston, next to the Greenway Plaza.

From 1975 to 2003 the building served as a multi-purpose sports arena, for various professional teams in Houston.

From its opening until 1998, the building was known as The Summit. Computer technology firm Compaq bought naming rights to the building after that and it was known as Compaq Center until 2003. At that point the name was dropped, coinciding with opening of the Toyota Center as a new professional sports venue in Houston. Shortly after, the building was leased out to Lakewood Church for use as its main facility. Lakewood Church purchased the building outright in 2010.

Construction of The Summit

In 1971, the National Basketball Association's San Diego Rockets were purchased by new ownership group Texas Sports Investments, who moved the franchise to Houston. The city, however, lacked an indoor arena suitable to host a major sports franchise. The largest arena in the city at the time was 34-year-old Sam Houston Coliseum, but the Rockets would not even consider using it as a temporary facility. Plans were immediately undertaken to construct the new venue that would become The Summit. The Rockets played their home games in various local facilities such as Hofheinz Pavilion and the Astrodome during the interim.

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We'd love to know what you think of the ad on our Facebook page:
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And you can visit us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/UKVolkswagen

OpenPOWER Foundation Overview

In this video from the 2014 HPCAC StanfordHPC & Exascale Conference, Steve Fields from IBM presents an OpenPOWER Foundation Overview.
"The founding members of the OpenPOWER Consortium represent the next generation in data-center innovation," said Steve Mills, senior vice president, and group executive, IBM Software & Systems. "Combining our talents and assets around the POWER architecture can greatly increase the rate of innovation throughout the industry. Developers now have access to an expanded and open set of server technologies for the first time. This type of 'collaborative development' model will change the way data center hardware is designed and deployed."
Learn more: http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2014/stanford-workshop/agenda.php
and
http://www.open-power.org

Pre-exascale Architectures: OpenPOWER Performance and Usability for French Scientific Community

Pre-exascale Architectures: OpenPOWER Performance and Usability for French Scientific Community

Pre-exascale Architectures: OpenPOWER Performance and Usability for French Scientific Community

In this video from the NVIDIA GPUTechnologyConference, Gabriel Hautreux from GENCI presents: Using OpenMP and OpenACC standards for GPU on OpenPOWER: motivations and results.
"In order to prepare the scientific communities, GENCI and its partners have set up a technology watch group and lead collaborations with vendors, relying on HPC experts and early adopted HPC solutions. The two main objectives are providing guidance and prepare the scientific communities to challenges of exascale architectures. The talk will present the OpenPOWER platform bought by GENCI and provided to the scientific community. Then, it will present the first results obtained on the platform for a set of about 15 applications using all the solutions provided to the users (CUDA,OpenACC,OpenMP,...). Finally, a presentation about one specific application will be made regarding its porting effort and techniques used for GPUs with both OpenACC and OpenMP."

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OpenPOWER: building an open-source software stack from bare metal

OpenPOWER: building an open-source software stack from bare metal

OpenPOWER: building an open-source software stack from bare metal

JeremyKerrhttp://lca2015.linux.org.au/schedule/30305/view_talk
POWER 8 is the first generation of IBM Power Systems to run on a full stack
of open-source software. Firmware, hypervisor, operating system and
hardware-management tools are all available for audit, review and
modification.
Collectively, this software is part of the OpenPOWER project. Some of the
components (like the Linux kernel) will be familiar, but others have been
developed specifically for Power systems.
This talk gives an introduction to OpenPOWER hardware and software, and covers
the technical aspects of the stack - the components involved, what they do, and
how they interact. We'll cover how you can modify, build and run your own
firmware on an OpenPOWER system.

Quick Look at a OpenPOWER S812LC

Nigel and Mike take a quick look at the outside and inside of the IBM OpenPOWER S812LC built by Tyan and highlight the prime features.
Note: this is an early ship version of the machine so might have minor differences like missing health and safety stickers and cables and handles in the wrong colour.
At the end is a quick summary of the S812LC configuration options.
POWER8: 8x3.3 GHz or 10x2.9 GHz
Memory: 32 DIMMS from 64GB to 1 TB
Internal disks: 0 to 2 – 1 TB or 6 TB via daughter board
Front disks: 0 to12 – 6 TB, 7200RPM, Enterprise
Via Adaptec RAID adapters: Mirror/strip or cached RAID5Fibre Channel 8Gb SAN adapter
Range of Ethernet adapters: 1 Gb,10 Gb or 40Gb
Ubuntu 14.04.03 or later
Red Hat 7.2 or later
PowerKVM 3.1 or later
BMCService Processor: ipmitool, Petitboot & GUI
Nigel refers to the AIXpert Blog entries for the S812LC machine - the first has lots of detailed pictures:
1 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_First_Look
2 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_2nd_Look_Fount_Disk_Bay
3 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_3th_Look_Simple_Install_from_Media
4 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S822LC_4th_Look_Firmware_RAID_Disk_Setup

Volkswagen Technology: Easy Open Power Tailgate

Got your hands full and your car key in your pocket? Hands free boot opening uses a sensor beneath the rear bumper to automatically open the boot as you approach. Perfect when you need a helping hand.
Learn more about Volkswagen's technologies for comfort and convenience here: http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/technology/comfort-and-convenience
We'd love to know what you think of the ad on our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/VolkswagenUK
And you can visit us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/UKVolkswagen

OpenPOWER Foundation Overview

In this video from the 2014 HPCAC StanfordHPC & Exascale Conference, Steve Fields from IBM presents an OpenPOWER Foundation Overview.
"The founding members of the OpenPOWER Consortium represent the next generation in data-center innovation," said Steve Mills, senior vice president, and group executive, IBM Software & Systems. "Combining our talents and assets around the POWER architecture can greatly increase the rate of innovation throughout the industry. Developers now have access to an expanded and open set of server technologies for the first time. This type of 'collaborative development' model will change the way data center hardware is designed and deployed."
Learn more: http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2014/stanford-workshop/agenda.php
and
http://www.open-power.org

Pre-exascale Architectures: OpenPOWER Performance and Usability for French Scientific Community

In this video from the NVIDIA GPUTechnologyConference, Gabriel Hautreux from GENCI presents: Using OpenMP and OpenACC standards for GPU on OpenPOWER: motivations and results.
"In order to prepare the scientific communities, GENCI and its partners have set up a technology watch group and lead collaborations with vendors, relying on HPC experts and early adopted HPC solutions. The two main objectives are providing guidance and prepare the scientific communities to challenges of exascale architectures. The talk will present the OpenPOWER platform bought by GENCI and provided to the scientific community. Then, it will present the first results obtained on the platform for a set of about 15 applications using all the solutions provided to the users (CUDA,OpenACC,OpenMP,...). Finally, a prese...

published: 27 May 2018

OpenPOWER: building an open-source software stack from bare metal

JeremyKerrhttp://lca2015.linux.org.au/schedule/30305/view_talk
POWER 8 is the first generation of IBM Power Systems to run on a full stack
of open-source software. Firmware, hypervisor, operating system and
hardware-management tools are all available for audit, review and
modification.
Collectively, this software is part of the OpenPOWER project. Some of the
components (like the Linux kernel) will be familiar, but others have been
developed specifically for Power systems.
This talk gives an introduction to OpenPOWER hardware and software, and covers
the technical aspects of the stack - the components involved, what they do, and
how they interact. We'll cover how you can modify, build and run your own
firmware on an OpenPOWER system.

Quick Look at a OpenPOWER S812LC

Nigel and Mike take a quick look at the outside and inside of the IBM OpenPOWER S812LC built by Tyan and highlight the prime features.
Note: this is an early ship version of the machine so might have minor differences like missing health and safety stickers and cables and handles in the wrong colour.
At the end is a quick summary of the S812LC configuration options.
POWER8: 8x3.3 GHz or 10x2.9 GHz
Memory: 32 DIMMS from 64GB to 1 TB
Internal disks: 0 to 2 – 1 TB or 6 TB via daughter board
Front disks: 0 to12 – 6 TB, 7200RPM, Enterprise
Via Adaptec RAID adapters: Mirror/strip or cached RAID5Fibre Channel 8Gb SAN adapter
Range of Ethernet adapters: 1 Gb,10 Gb or 40Gb
Ubuntu 14.04.03 or later
Red Hat 7.2 or later
PowerKVM 3.1 or later
BMCService Processor: ...

Volkswagen Technology: Easy Open Power Tailgate

Got your hands full and your car key in your pocket? Hands free boot opening uses a sensor beneath the rear bumper to automatically open the boot as you approac...

Got your hands full and your car key in your pocket? Hands free boot opening uses a sensor beneath the rear bumper to automatically open the boot as you approach. Perfect when you need a helping hand.
Learn more about Volkswagen's technologies for comfort and convenience here: http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/technology/comfort-and-convenience
We'd love to know what you think of the ad on our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/VolkswagenUK
And you can visit us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/UKVolkswagen

Got your hands full and your car key in your pocket? Hands free boot opening uses a sensor beneath the rear bumper to automatically open the boot as you approach. Perfect when you need a helping hand.
Learn more about Volkswagen's technologies for comfort and convenience here: http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/technology/comfort-and-convenience
We'd love to know what you think of the ad on our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/VolkswagenUK
And you can visit us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/UKVolkswagen

In this video from the 2014 HPCAC StanfordHPC & Exascale Conference, Steve Fields from IBM presents an OpenPOWER Foundation Overview.
"The founding members of the OpenPOWER Consortium represent the next generation in data-center innovation," said Steve Mills, senior vice president, and group executive, IBM Software & Systems. "Combining our talents and assets around the POWER architecture can greatly increase the rate of innovation throughout the industry. Developers now have access to an expanded and open set of server technologies for the first time. This type of 'collaborative development' model will change the way data center hardware is designed and deployed."
Learn more: http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2014/stanford-workshop/agenda.php
and
http://www.open-power.org

In this video from the 2014 HPCAC StanfordHPC & Exascale Conference, Steve Fields from IBM presents an OpenPOWER Foundation Overview.
"The founding members of the OpenPOWER Consortium represent the next generation in data-center innovation," said Steve Mills, senior vice president, and group executive, IBM Software & Systems. "Combining our talents and assets around the POWER architecture can greatly increase the rate of innovation throughout the industry. Developers now have access to an expanded and open set of server technologies for the first time. This type of 'collaborative development' model will change the way data center hardware is designed and deployed."
Learn more: http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2014/stanford-workshop/agenda.php
and
http://www.open-power.org

In this video from the NVIDIA GPUTechnologyConference, Gabriel Hautreux from GENCI presents: Using OpenMP and OpenACC standards for GPU on OpenPOWER: motivations and results.
"In order to prepare the scientific communities, GENCI and its partners have set up a technology watch group and lead collaborations with vendors, relying on HPC experts and early adopted HPC solutions. The two main objectives are providing guidance and prepare the scientific communities to challenges of exascale architectures. The talk will present the OpenPOWER platform bought by GENCI and provided to the scientific community. Then, it will present the first results obtained on the platform for a set of about 15 applications using all the solutions provided to the users (CUDA,OpenACC,OpenMP,...). Finally, a presentation about one specific application will be made regarding its porting effort and techniques used for GPUs with both OpenACC and OpenMP."

In this video from the NVIDIA GPUTechnologyConference, Gabriel Hautreux from GENCI presents: Using OpenMP and OpenACC standards for GPU on OpenPOWER: motivations and results.
"In order to prepare the scientific communities, GENCI and its partners have set up a technology watch group and lead collaborations with vendors, relying on HPC experts and early adopted HPC solutions. The two main objectives are providing guidance and prepare the scientific communities to challenges of exascale architectures. The talk will present the OpenPOWER platform bought by GENCI and provided to the scientific community. Then, it will present the first results obtained on the platform for a set of about 15 applications using all the solutions provided to the users (CUDA,OpenACC,OpenMP,...). Finally, a presentation about one specific application will be made regarding its porting effort and techniques used for GPUs with both OpenACC and OpenMP."

JeremyKerrhttp://lca2015.linux.org.au/schedule/30305/view_talk
POWER 8 is the first generation of IBM Power Systems to run on a full stack
of open-source software. Firmware, hypervisor, operating system and
hardware-management tools are all available for audit, review and
modification.
Collectively, this software is part of the OpenPOWER project. Some of the
components (like the Linux kernel) will be familiar, but others have been
developed specifically for Power systems.
This talk gives an introduction to OpenPOWER hardware and software, and covers
the technical aspects of the stack - the components involved, what they do, and
how they interact. We'll cover how you can modify, build and run your own
firmware on an OpenPOWER system.

JeremyKerrhttp://lca2015.linux.org.au/schedule/30305/view_talk
POWER 8 is the first generation of IBM Power Systems to run on a full stack
of open-source software. Firmware, hypervisor, operating system and
hardware-management tools are all available for audit, review and
modification.
Collectively, this software is part of the OpenPOWER project. Some of the
components (like the Linux kernel) will be familiar, but others have been
developed specifically for Power systems.
This talk gives an introduction to OpenPOWER hardware and software, and covers
the technical aspects of the stack - the components involved, what they do, and
how they interact. We'll cover how you can modify, build and run your own
firmware on an OpenPOWER system.

Quick Look at a OpenPOWER S812LC

Nigel and Mike take a quick look at the outside and inside of the IBM OpenPOWER S812LC built by Tyan and highlight the prime features.
Note: this is an early s...

Nigel and Mike take a quick look at the outside and inside of the IBM OpenPOWER S812LC built by Tyan and highlight the prime features.
Note: this is an early ship version of the machine so might have minor differences like missing health and safety stickers and cables and handles in the wrong colour.
At the end is a quick summary of the S812LC configuration options.
POWER8: 8x3.3 GHz or 10x2.9 GHz
Memory: 32 DIMMS from 64GB to 1 TB
Internal disks: 0 to 2 – 1 TB or 6 TB via daughter board
Front disks: 0 to12 – 6 TB, 7200RPM, Enterprise
Via Adaptec RAID adapters: Mirror/strip or cached RAID5Fibre Channel 8Gb SAN adapter
Range of Ethernet adapters: 1 Gb,10 Gb or 40Gb
Ubuntu 14.04.03 or later
Red Hat 7.2 or later
PowerKVM 3.1 or later
BMCService Processor: ipmitool, Petitboot & GUI
Nigel refers to the AIXpert Blog entries for the S812LC machine - the first has lots of detailed pictures:
1 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_First_Look
2 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_2nd_Look_Fount_Disk_Bay
3 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_3th_Look_Simple_Install_from_Media
4 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S822LC_4th_Look_Firmware_RAID_Disk_Setup

Nigel and Mike take a quick look at the outside and inside of the IBM OpenPOWER S812LC built by Tyan and highlight the prime features.
Note: this is an early ship version of the machine so might have minor differences like missing health and safety stickers and cables and handles in the wrong colour.
At the end is a quick summary of the S812LC configuration options.
POWER8: 8x3.3 GHz or 10x2.9 GHz
Memory: 32 DIMMS from 64GB to 1 TB
Internal disks: 0 to 2 – 1 TB or 6 TB via daughter board
Front disks: 0 to12 – 6 TB, 7200RPM, Enterprise
Via Adaptec RAID adapters: Mirror/strip or cached RAID5Fibre Channel 8Gb SAN adapter
Range of Ethernet adapters: 1 Gb,10 Gb or 40Gb
Ubuntu 14.04.03 or later
Red Hat 7.2 or later
PowerKVM 3.1 or later
BMCService Processor: ipmitool, Petitboot & GUI
Nigel refers to the AIXpert Blog entries for the S812LC machine - the first has lots of detailed pictures:
1 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_First_Look
2 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_2nd_Look_Fount_Disk_Bay
3 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_3th_Look_Simple_Install_from_Media
4 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S822LC_4th_Look_Firmware_RAID_Disk_Setup

Volkswagen Technology: Easy Open Power Tailgate

Got your hands full and your car key in your pocket? Hands free boot opening uses a sensor beneath the rear bumper to automatically open the boot as you approach. Perfect when you need a helping hand.
Learn more about Volkswagen's technologies for comfort and convenience here: http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/technology/comfort-and-convenience
We'd love to know what you think of the ad on our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/VolkswagenUK
And you can visit us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/UKVolkswagen

OpenPOWER Foundation Overview

In this video from the 2014 HPCAC StanfordHPC & Exascale Conference, Steve Fields from IBM presents an OpenPOWER Foundation Overview.
"The founding members of the OpenPOWER Consortium represent the next generation in data-center innovation," said Steve Mills, senior vice president, and group executive, IBM Software & Systems. "Combining our talents and assets around the POWER architecture can greatly increase the rate of innovation throughout the industry. Developers now have access to an expanded and open set of server technologies for the first time. This type of 'collaborative development' model will change the way data center hardware is designed and deployed."
Learn more: http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2014/stanford-workshop/agenda.php
and
http://www.open-power.org

Pre-exascale Architectures: OpenPOWER Performance and Usability for French Scientific Community

In this video from the NVIDIA GPUTechnologyConference, Gabriel Hautreux from GENCI presents: Using OpenMP and OpenACC standards for GPU on OpenPOWER: motivations and results.
"In order to prepare the scientific communities, GENCI and its partners have set up a technology watch group and lead collaborations with vendors, relying on HPC experts and early adopted HPC solutions. The two main objectives are providing guidance and prepare the scientific communities to challenges of exascale architectures. The talk will present the OpenPOWER platform bought by GENCI and provided to the scientific community. Then, it will present the first results obtained on the platform for a set of about 15 applications using all the solutions provided to the users (CUDA,OpenACC,OpenMP,...). Finally, a presentation about one specific application will be made regarding its porting effort and techniques used for GPUs with both OpenACC and OpenMP."

OpenPOWER: building an open-source software stack from bare metal

JeremyKerrhttp://lca2015.linux.org.au/schedule/30305/view_talk
POWER 8 is the first generation of IBM Power Systems to run on a full stack
of open-source software. Firmware, hypervisor, operating system and
hardware-management tools are all available for audit, review and
modification.
Collectively, this software is part of the OpenPOWER project. Some of the
components (like the Linux kernel) will be familiar, but others have been
developed specifically for Power systems.
This talk gives an introduction to OpenPOWER hardware and software, and covers
the technical aspects of the stack - the components involved, what they do, and
how they interact. We'll cover how you can modify, build and run your own
firmware on an OpenPOWER system.

Quick Look at a OpenPOWER S812LC

Nigel and Mike take a quick look at the outside and inside of the IBM OpenPOWER S812LC built by Tyan and highlight the prime features.
Note: this is an early ship version of the machine so might have minor differences like missing health and safety stickers and cables and handles in the wrong colour.
At the end is a quick summary of the S812LC configuration options.
POWER8: 8x3.3 GHz or 10x2.9 GHz
Memory: 32 DIMMS from 64GB to 1 TB
Internal disks: 0 to 2 – 1 TB or 6 TB via daughter board
Front disks: 0 to12 – 6 TB, 7200RPM, Enterprise
Via Adaptec RAID adapters: Mirror/strip or cached RAID5Fibre Channel 8Gb SAN adapter
Range of Ethernet adapters: 1 Gb,10 Gb or 40Gb
Ubuntu 14.04.03 or later
Red Hat 7.2 or later
PowerKVM 3.1 or later
BMCService Processor: ipmitool, Petitboot & GUI
Nigel refers to the AIXpert Blog entries for the S812LC machine - the first has lots of detailed pictures:
1 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_First_Look
2 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_2nd_Look_Fount_Disk_Bay
3 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_3th_Look_Simple_Install_from_Media
4 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S822LC_4th_Look_Firmware_RAID_Disk_Setup

OpenPOWER Foundation

The OpenPOWER Foundation is a collaboration around Power Architecture products initiated by IBM and announced as the "OpenPOWER Consortium" on August 6, 2013. IBM is opening up technology surrounding their Power Architecture offerings, like processor specifications, firmware and software and is offering this on a liberal license and they will be using a collaborative development model with their partners.

The goal stated is to enable the server vendor ecosystem to build their own customized server, networking and storage hardware for future data centers and cloud computing.

Power.org is still the governing body around the Power Architectureinstruction set but specific implementations are now free to use under a liberal license granted by IBM. Processors based on IBM's IP can now be fabricated on any foundry and mixed with other hardware products of the integrator's choice.

Openness

IBM is using the word open to describe this project in three ways.

They are licensing the microprocessor technology openly to its partners. They are sharing the blueprints to their hardware and software to their partners, so they can hire IBM or other companies to manufacture processors or other related chips.